speaking of yuletide

i'm so heartbroken psoh wasn't nominated this year. i never remember on time to nominate it myself or there would be a lot more obscure fandoms on the listings but psoh has been consistently listed on the tag set every year for as long as i remember and i'm sad to see it go. 

laziness speaking on top of love and nostalgia, but it's also That One Fandom i always volunteer to write for, if only because i know the characters so well that they're fairly easy to write in comparison to other fandoms :'D

that and i always get a mighty headache trying to figure out the fandoms to volunteer for while juggling all of my Very Specific parameters:

1. what am i willing to write for this fandom/characters? anything? or is there a specific sort of thing that is likely to be asked that i would absolutely hate to do?
2. how well do i know this world and these characters? is it one of the fandoms i was so obsessed with for so long that i'm confident in writing for those worlds (harry potter is not on yuletide but that's an extensive world i know a little too well, w.i.t.c.h. comics are another one, at least until they took a turn for the terrible, etc) or is it something i will be terribly afraid of making mistakes and will have to research literally every little thing in order not to get too anxious about it (slice of life anime full of japanese cultural references, canon in historical eras, characters in the military or other specific careers, extensive sprawling canon, etc)? do i remember the source material well enough to write for it even though it's something i used to love?
3. how likely is it that i'll be asked for something entirely out of character that would make me scream and cry to actually write?
4. are the prevalent tropes for that fandom something i vibe with at all?
5. do i have any ideas to fall back on for that fandom/characters if the yuletide letter doesn't specify anything?
6. how easy will it be for me to get inspired and write something for this?

it's a bit of a gamble every year, not gonna lie. i already changed my sign-up like three times on the past day or so because i kept changing my mind about certain fandoms and my motivation to write for them. i finally did decide to include his dark materials in one of my fandoms even though i haven't read it in a full decade, so i guess i just saddled myself with not one, not two, but three books to reread if i'm assigned to write for it: i'm not sure if i'll have the head for it, but i'm also salivating at the characters/ship i picked for HDM so.

my love for rarepairs wins once more, i guess.